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I'm not sure that financial prizes give much of an incentive either way for people trying to stop aging.

• melling 12y ago
  Financial prizes have worked for centuries. Have to be specific on a goal. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_%28book%29 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_%28book%29
  • lotsofmangos 12y ago
    Is a good book, but I think you miss my point. Measuring longitude is exactly the sort of thing a cash prize helps with, elixirs of life already have such strong incentives attached that you might as well just award a nice cake and a balloon saying "Well Done".
    • melling 12y ago
      Nah, you're looking at it completely wrong. There are many small steps that could improve people's lives. Many of us could get to 100 if we simply could monitor our bodies more closely, for example, and perhaps fix "small defects" that are detected early: http://tricorder.xprize.org http://tricorder.xprize.org Some people live to be well over 100, so if we could closely identify why they live longer, we might learn a lot there too. We know so little about the human body that one day we say eggs are bad for you then the next, they're ok to eat again.